Kiddle is a search engine built for children. It runs on Google SafeSearch and adds a second filtering layer of its own on top. The site launched in 2014 and reached parents worldwide around 2016. Most of the people typing into it are between 5 and 12. Pages carry no adverts, block adult material, and lead with pictures instead of dense text. What Is Kiddle and Who Runs It Kiddle is not a Google product. An independent team runs kiddle.co, borrowing Google’s filtering technology and a...

0.0 Context Setting Wednesday, August 5, 2026 in Portland, Oregon. Today, the city briefly had the worst polluted air out of all the cities in the world! This jackpot is going great. 0.1 Events: How People Work, Live! ... with Dylan Wilbanks This Friday 7 August it’s episode 5 of How People Work, Live! ... with Dylan Wilbanks! Who’s Dylan? Well! Dylan Wilbanks is a longtime product design leader in the enterprise software world at companies like Apptio, HP, and Cisco. Through his...

Back in 2024 I tweeted screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept "art" created using DALL-E. Today, on the fourth anniversary of that tweet, I decided to see if Claude Fable 5 (running in Claude Code for web ) could build the entire game from the content of that tweet. It did a pretty good job of it! You can play the game here . Here's the GitHub repo , and a short video demo: Your browser does not support HTML5 video. How I built this This...

IBM Plex Mono is one of my favourite monospace fonts to have come out in the last decade. And it got an update in May : – stylistic alternate for /l in Roman styles – stylistic alternates for /comma and quotes – glyph /overline (U+203E) – support for Venda language (10 additional characters) – support for Arabic transliteration (10 additional characters) – support for Hebrew transliteration (1 additional character) – support for Sanskrit transliteration (18 additional ch...

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I wrote ryg_rans in 2014. I still regularly get questions and patch submissions from people who want to use it as a library. That is not what it’s for! ryg_rans is not a library, never was. It’s a toy implementation of an algorithm whose core fits in something like 20 lines of code. It’s the equivalent of the wooden board you sometimes see in hardware stores where they have 30 different types and sizes of fasteners screwed, bolted or nailed in. The idea is not that you should use th...

Marcus Hutter —oldheads will remember him from AIXI —recently published a book: Job-Less Utopia: Macroeconomics in the Age of AGI . I’m always curious what the people building AI think or want the future to look like, and I’m also always looking for non-doomer takes on the post-AGI future, so I decided to read it and review it. The first thing to say is that nearly every sentence is written by AI. To his credit, Hutter says so plainly: Claude also served as the most dilige...

It wasn’t until 1959 that any being on Earth saw our Moon’s farside for the first time. Because the Moon is tidally locked to Earth, we only ever see its familiar nearside face. In the early days of space exploration, the Soviet Luna 3 and spacecraft succeeding it transmitted the first lunar farside images . While these captured images at low resolutions by today’s standards, the photos nevertheless revealed a far more cratered hemisphere than the Moon’s nearside. It looked more akin ...

Every piece of disruptive technology in history has a life story. For X-BAT, that story begins nearly forty years before its conception with the development of a unique propulsion technology. AVEN ® , or the Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle, is the thrust-vectoring engine nozzle that lets Shield AI’s X-BAT launch and land vertically without a runway. It wasn’t initially designed to enable the world’s first AI-piloted vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) strike fighter. It was create...

Last year I spoke at MK Geek Night about my personal reflections on how, after years of chasing IndieWeb perfection, I just accepted my imperfect website. I finally sat down to transcribe it and post it here. The base of this post was a transcript of my presentation but some editing is now present for added clarity, blog context instead of presentation and correction of grammatical mistakes. This a ramble about what a safe personal online space focused on creativity, community, and self-ex...

Proxmox today announced their Proxmox Virtual Environment is now available for 64-bit ARM . I tested it on my Ampere Altra Dev Platform —the same machine on which I've booted Windows on Arm the first time, messed with multiple GPUs, and most recently tested Houdini's native arm64 support . Install was easy, as the Ampere Altra uses UEFI / ACPI for its hardware, meaning Proxmox didn't have to tailor its ISO to specific platforms, like you have to do with Raspberry Pis and most SBC...

There’s been a fair bit of publicity of the Open AI “rogue agent” that hacked into Hugging Face . This prompted Anthropic to check what their models were up to and, to my complete lack of surprise, discovered three incidents where models had gained unauthorized access to data in other organizations. Simon Wilison concluded : It’s abundantly clear now that running evals of cyberattack potential in models is a spectacularly risky business. Every AI lab needs to pay attention to ...

Please help if you can: I am working with some students who are studying programmers’ beliefs about software engineering folklore. If you can spare a few minutes to answer the question in https://survey.bth.se/survey/2545 , we would be very grateful. We would also be grateful if you could circulate the survey link to colleagues and friends, since we would like to reach as diverse a demographic as possible. Thanks in advance. Please help if you can: I am working with some students who are stu...

About two months ago, I discussed my fitness challenge where the goal was to get below 85.3kg, the oldest measurement I have on record on the scale’s app, starting from 89.6kg. We’re halfway through this challenge, and things got a bit out of hand because, as it’s often the case, I tend to go a bit extreme when I set this type of goal. I hopped on the scale this morning and logged an 81.1kg, which is the lowest weight I have on record since I bought the scale 10 years ago. I don't reme...

Remember me? It’s been a while, I know.  My last blog post went up here on February 19.   The posts that came after were made by my mighty minions.   I am lucky enough to have a great staff of assistants… though even with their help, I kept falling further and further behind. This year has been… stressful, to say the least.   So much has been happening, it’s been overwhelming.   Some great things, exciting things.  Dreams coming true.  But there have been nightmares too. ...

I was watching a Jeopardy from 2004 (The Game Show Channel is rerunning Ken Jennings streak) and the following question raises a good question. The contestants where Ken, Jerry, Jennifer. In Double Jeopardy there was a category  Biblical Name The Same. The clue was three last names (e.g., Driver, Sandler, West ) and the correct response is a biblical name that is the first name of people with that last name ( Adam : Adam Driver, Adam Sandler, Adam West). What happened with Biblical Name The ...

Home under construction, via Wikipedia . A few weeks ago the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law . This is an enormous housing bill that’s been in the works for roughly a year — I first discussed it on Statecraft back in 2025 — and folks are optimistic that it will, per its description, “increase the supply of housing in America.” But actually understanding what, specifically, the law will do is tricky. Like many large pieces of legislation, this is an amalgamation of many ...

I have a habit of giving all our pets nicknames, there's many of them for each of our dogs. We've Nelly for 4 days and already I have: Nells Bells Nelly Bean Nelly Furtado Man Eater (after the song) Nelly the Elephant It's anyone's guess which will stick. Our other dogs, Tia and Sid, are t-bone and squid (short for Sqidley) respectively. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you....

Warm tea, wiki edits, and zines sent by a friend that arrived earlier this week welcome me to the morning. Yesterday there was a rain shower more intense than any I have seen for a while; a powerful wind blew through the air. Now, the day is calm: the sky is cloudy and a light breeze sways the leaves on the trees to and fro. Birds call. My tea is empty. I should make another cup. I look around the room and think of how different times bring life to different parts of the place. My guitar sings i...

Who knows how reality will continue to develop? There’s no way to prepare. When you can’t be prepared, be prepared to find poetry in the chaos. Secret messages, serendipitous grace, lines of meaning in a whirlwind of uncertainty. “It's gonna change, baby doll It's gonna change, honey ball It's gonna change, sugar cane It's gonna change, sweetie legs.” —Yoko Ono This is a test but so is everything. Everyone is watching you and everyone will judge you and you have to make p...

I was at one of the local museums last weekend, because it was the last day of their exhibit on "clouds in art", that I'd been wanting to check out since March. At the museum, I took pictures using a kids camera that instantly prints on thermal paper. I got this because Max had one at IWC Nürnberg and I thought it was cool — he also has a cool post about a thermal printer camera project , you should check that out. It turned off before I got through the whole exhibit because it was ...

In Physics simulations or game engines it’s sometimes useful to determine the speed with which two objects are approaching each other. This post will discuss the concept of closing speed , which is the normal component of the relative velocity of two objects. Relative velocity and its components Suppose we have objects A and B [1] with velocity vectors \vec{V_A} and \vec{V_B} . The relative velocity of B w.r.t. A is: \[\vec{V}_{B|A}=\vec{V}_B-\vec{V}_A\] Put differently, ...

C++26 adds a new container to the standard library: std::hive . It is meant to occupy the ground between std::vector and std::list . Like a vector, it keeps its elements in contiguous blocks of memory, so scanning it does not require you to chase a pointer for every element. Like a list, it never moves an element once it has been inserted: your pointers, references and iterators stay valid, and you may erase any element in constant time without disturbing the others. Internally, a hive is ...